Mihály Juhász, who is currently serving time behind the walls of one of Britain’s most venerable prisons, remains wanted in Hungary, despite having repeatedly threatened to blow up the US embassy in Budapest and kill everyone inside. Friends in London have been left stunned; they say he was never known as the sort of man capable of such things.
Hungarian man wanted to blow up US embassy
According to Blikk, many of Juhász’s friends are still clinging to the hope that they may have misjudged him after all, and that they are not quite as poor a judge of character as this case would suggest. Juhász, who settled in London 10 years ago after spending the previous decade in Germany, is set to face court not merely on serious criminal charges, but on terrorism allegations.
He is still wanted due to the Brexit
The Central District Court of Buda issued a warrant for his arrest on 2 February, a fact one member of his circle only discovered months later, to considerable shock. Nothing about the forklift driver’s life suggested that between 2023 and 2025 he had three times threatened the US embassy on Szabadság tér with blowing it up or setting it to fire, while also warning that he would kill everyone working there.
The obvious question is what the authorities have been doing all these years, while the man outwardly led a peaceful, respectable life in one of Europe’s great cities. He is currently held in the historic Wandsworth prison, and an European arrest warrant has been issued for him; he remains wanted in Hungary because Britain is no longer in the EU, making the flow of information rather more awkward.
As we wrote earlier, former Fidesz organisation leader was detained at Budapest Airport.
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